Quotes & Sayings About Innovation And Failure

Success is on the far side of failure. — Thomas J. Watson

In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant. — Jacquie McNish

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success. — Pearl Zhu

It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that.
You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure.
As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.' — Seth Godin

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew the bill of goods frustrates the expectation of what is possible, while renewal of the bill of goods intensifies the expectations of unattainable progress. What people have and what they are about to get are equally exasperating to them. Accelerating change has become both addictive and intolerable. At this point the balance among stability, change and tradition has been upset; society has lost both its roots in shared memories and its bearings for innovation. Judgement on precedents has lost its value. — Ivan Illich

You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don't accept risk, you don't get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works. — Michael Dell

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened — Terry Leahy

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. — Roger Von Oech

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works. — Seth Godin

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin. — Paul Sloane

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation. — Jay Samit

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation. — Sebastian Thrun

Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate. — Gavin Newsom

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail. — Paul Sloane

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying. — Tim Harford

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. — Steven Johnson

Yes, there can be no innovation, learning, or creativity without failure. But failing is painful. It fuels the "shouldas and couldas," which means judgment and shame are often lying in wait — Brene Brown

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success.
Or calamitous failure. That can happen too. — Steven Moffat

Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other. — Richard Branson

People learn best and fastest from making their own mistakes and fixing them. It's painful to watch a child flounder, but in the long run children become more resilient and resourceful if they have to deal with failure once in a while. One of the biggest fears of today's business strategists is that we are producing a coddled workforce of straight "A" students who are afraid to go out on a limb for fear they'll fall. American innovation was born out of metaphorical scraped knees and bloody noses. A generation that's been told they shouldn't even touch a doorknob without applying antibacterial hand sanitizer may not have the rough and tumble qualities needed to compete in a global dog-eat-dog economy. — Lynne C. Lancaster

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions. — John Carroll

If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void. — Graham Robb

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles ... Contemporary or postmodernist art ... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past. — Fredric Jameson

We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options. — Brene Brown

When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation. — Brene Brown

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. — Brene Brown

Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.

Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.

Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system. — Richie Norton

Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies. — Richard Owen

99 percent of success is built on failure. — Charles Kettering

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. — Dan Pallotta

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation. — Max McKeown

Authentic leaders inspire us to engage with each other in powerful dreams that make the impossible possible. We are called on to persevere despite failure and pursue a purpose beyond the paycheck. This is at the core of innovation. It requires aligning the dreams of each individual to the broader dream of the organization. — Henna Inam

Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread. — Wen Jiabao

Fail often and fail cheap. — Paul Sloane

Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure. — Roshan Sharma

Innovation without insight is failure. — Mark Simmonds

I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage. — Ryan Lilly

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience. — Christopher Galvin

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation. — Seth Godin

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action! — Tony Dovale

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly. — Michael Grade

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. — Georges St-Pierre

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ... — James Cameron

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure. — Joichi Ito

For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success. — Dov Seidman

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it. — Seth Godin

Microsoft is always two years away from failure. — Bill Gates